Very well laid out. Biggest problem is that the people watching his channel are probably likely to already understand the problem. Certainly almost everyone here understands the problem. Preaching to the choir and all that.
Hopefully we can get more people to see it as an issue in the future.
You’re doing your part :)
I may have used Facebook as a bit of a provocative example here… But even on Facebook, there are certain groups that could enjoy the fediverse.
The fediverse should be for everyone.
Bluesky is not truly decentralized, in the same way that Mastodon is. Bluesky is effectively centralized and is still controlled by an american corporation and could in principle be bought in the same way that Twitter was. Lastly, Bluesky made their own protocol instead of using the already-standard ActivityPub protocol. That’s why a lot of people are skeptical and recommend Mastodon instead.
I still active on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and sometimes LinkedIn for work (never used Facebook and Instagram) and I like Lemmy and Mastodon alot but I see no reason to restrict myself to only use Fediverse.
I understand that - hopefully the fediverse can provide a viable alternative for all of those platforms in the future. Right now I don’t think anything like LinkedIn exists on the fediverse, for instance.
why do you guys call Twitter, Xitter?
I think the idea of Xitter is to pronounce is as “shitter”, because Twitter became (more) shit with Elon Musk’s rebranding as X.
Glad someone guided you back!
100% fair! Not everyone can muster the will to wander into that hellhole. Some brave few might try :)
m8 literally everyone on the fediverse is an outlier 😅
Right. I guess I just don’t understand the use case since I’m used to comment trees (like here on Lemmy) and you’re never confused about what someone is replying to since the comment being replied to is always just right above.
Is it just that it links back to the original or what? I mean how is it different from just quoting the post like this:
It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
And then saying something about it?
Can someone please tell me what a quote post is? Maybe I’m blind but I don’t see an explanation for what it actually is anywhere.
When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.
Damn! If only someone could’ve predicted that Meta would eventually do something stupid like this! If only we had defederated from them from the start /s
Good meme but had to downvote because this has nothing to do with the fediverse.